What started it was the need to add captioned video. The original version had the ability to show transcripts, but it was limited to a long string of text. Since the original was built two wonder events happened; the updated release of Captionate, and Flash’s FLVPlaybackCaptioned component. This new version of Captionate allows for the easy creation of the timed XML file that FLVPlaybackCapioned needs to work properly. Voilà! Easy caption creation.